Re: [PATCH] Fix loading of multi-line history entires from disk

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:08:24 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> } Is it worth appending something syntactically null but a little more
> } complicated that we can strip on input with little likelihood of
> } stepping on anyone's toes?  " ; "?   Unless we do attempt that, appending
> } a simple space is as good as anything.
> 
> We could follow the examples of extended-history and _complete_debug to
> use something that begins with ";:".
> 
> E.g. we could do something like ";: ENDS_WITH_BACKSLASH" but that's not
> really "syntactically null" though it is semantically null.

I think we need something that works without extended-history on,
though, and even though we can still read it in specially if it's like
that it kind of violates the spirit.